I test 6 to 8 times a day (blood sugar) but if I don't eat I test about 4 times a day just to see what my basal insulin is doing.
jonniey, the regular drinking of beer strongly suggests an alcohol problem. Very often this comes as a coping mechanism of some sort. Life is tough, especially with type 1 diabetes.
Do you have a health team you could talk with about how you're coping and to get things back on track?
It sounds like you're being left at sea at the moment. I've also been through times when my sugars were way out of whack and I thought I was coping but really I wasn't.
For me, it was finding the forum and seeing how people were coping far better than me that made me realise I wasn't coping and needed to get things sorted.
There's a lot of potential these days for getting sugar levels under control and life in control too, so have faith. It's not such an uphill struggle if you take things step by step.
Ed